Detecting and acting upon a JSP (http) session timeout

Set a database with the clients/sessions and a thread to verify from time to time the users state and act accordingly.

Or,
Set a java server to listen to a port and handle the sessions by recording them in a vector or something and have them checked from time to time. Then connect to it within the jsp.

You can  use a class that implements
HTTPSessionBindingListener interface. When
session is ending, it will be notified.
Have a look at the HTTPSessionBindingListener API
doc.

Any examples?

You need to implement the valueBound and valueUnBound methods in HTTPSessionBindingListener Interface.

import javax.servlet.http.HttpSessionBindingListener;

public class MyServlet extends ... implements HttpSessionBindingListener
{

public valueBound(HttpSessionBindingEvent he)
{
// You are connected to a Session

}

public valueUnbound(HttpSessionBindingEvent he)
{
// You are being disconnected from a session

}

Hope that helps!



}

>public class MyServlet extends ... implements HttpSessionBindingListener
{

This seems to imply you are talking about servlets. I am using JSPs and beans. Would the same apply? Could one of my beans implement the HttpSessionBindingListener interface in the same way?

This may be academic as I have found my own method of doing what I want to do. I have added the necessary cleanup code to finalize method of a bean that has session scope. There may be an issue with the timing of when the finalize method get run but I am not sure yet.

> Could one of my beans implement the HttpSessionBindingListener interface in the same way?

Yes.

finalize() method is called once by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. You can put debug statements in the finalize() to see when the finalize() method is called and it is in sync with the session timeout. It will not be prudent to put a code in finalize()that clears up system wide shared resources.

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